We wonder if the potential of the computer has really been fully understood or realized.
It was not an original thought – like so much of Jobs' talent, it was a masterful repackaging. It was J. C. R. Licklider who opened the door to this pathway of imagining with his seminal paper, _Man-Computer Symbiosis_.
But it was in a 1990 interview, when Steve Jobs talked about computers being a 'bicycle of the mind', that this potential was brought to a larger audience.
YOUTUBE L40B08nWoMk Interview with Steve Jobs, 1990
A nascent potential sensed in HyperCard, but one that could not escape the bounding of a single computer.
A potential, as we explore our wonder, of Cultivating Connectome inside of us with that outside of us – a computer-enabled Second Self – allowing new creative possibility to emerge.
One that might unleash the Potential of Metathinking where we creatively engage with computers, integrating our three cognitions – our embodied, extended and enacted cognitions.
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